In addition to your manuscript, submit

• A separate document with an abstract of no more than 200 words. The abstract should explain the manuscript's main argument and scholarly contribution. To ensure the double-blind peer review system can work, please avoid authorial identification in the abstract.
• A third document that notes the title, author's name and mailing address and street address, if different, for express delivery services); phone, fax, and e-mail details; and the text of any note identifying the author (Affiliation and acknowledgments) to be included. Do not "dagger note," or number or asterisk the author note. Names and institutional affiliations, including country, of all contributing authors are required.

Here are guidelines for the article manuscript:

• Include a title at the top of the first page of the manuscript.
• To ensure the double-blind peer review system can work, please avoid authorial identification throughout the manuscript.
• Double-space all text, including notes.
• 1-inch margins.
• 12 point font for all text, including notes.
• Do not right-justify or indent endnotes.
• Do not justify the right margin.
• Turn off hyphenation to eliminate end-of-line hyphens (except for words that contain hyphens).
• Use hard returns to signal the end of a paragraph and the end of a heading and to format tables. In all other instances, use the wraparound feature to allow lines to run on.
• Use a single tab to indent paragraphs and notes.
• Do not use letters for numbers or numbers for letters (e.g., zero for the letter "oh"; the letter "ell" for one).
• Use two hyphens with no space before, between, or after for a dash (even if your software allows you to use a long [em] dash).
• Consecutively paginate the entire manuscript.
• Do not use parenthetical citations.
• Create a separate file for images and/or tables (see below).
• Note on subheadings: LHR allows only two levels of subheads, except in those rare instances where a third level is essential to the clear presentation of a technical argument. Do not use "Introduction" or "Part I" as a subhead. "Conclusion" may be used as a subhead.

Style

Law and History Review follows the Chicago Manual of Style in what is colloquially understood to be "modified Chicago style." Some frequent style queries are addressed below:

• Do not italicize common foreign words and abbreviations (such as ibid., et al., laissez-faire, vis-a-vis)
• Spell out contractions (do not, cannot) and numbers under 100
• Use "see below" or "see above" (not "infra" or "supra")
• Do not use academic titles (e.g., "Smith argues in his recent book," not "Professor Smith argues")
• Cite federal court decisions in the footnotes, at first occurrence, as follows: Bridges v. California, 314 U.S. 252 (1941)
• Shorten subsequent footnote citations to case title and page reference (or title, reporter, and page reference if more than one reporter appeared in the first cite)
• Diacritical marks that do not appear in the author's manuscript must be indicated in bold capital letters within brackets
• Do not set off as an extract any quotation shorter than seven lines
• "Conclusion" may be used as a subhead

Notes

Books should be cited as follows:

Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York: Vintage Books, 1976).

Articles should be cited as follows:

Kenneth F. Ledford, "German Lawyers and the State in the Weimar Republic," Law and History Review 13 (1995): 317–49.

For sources with up to five authors, list all authors. For sources with more than five authors, list the first three authors followed by "et al." Use inclusive page numbers if referring to the entire article. If the reference is to a particular section, use only those page number(s). If the pagination of a periodical is continuous throughout the year, it is not necessary to give the number or the season, only the volume and year. Use the following form for inclusive numbering: 23–25, 100–104, 107–8, 321–25, 1002–6.

Chapter in an edited book:

Thomas Klug, "Employers' Strategies in the Detroit Labor Market, 1900–1929," in On the Line. Essays in the History of Auto Work, ed. Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 41–72.

Citation of pages is the same as articles.

Shortened citations

After the first citation, a shorter form is used in subsequent notes:

Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, 25.

Ledford, "German Lawyers and the State," 320.

King, "Employers' Strategies," 46.

For sources such as archival material, an acronym may be used after the first citation:

Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain (hereafter AGI).

Citation of online sources

Because the LHR is published in an on-line edition as well as in print, any citations to sources that are internet-available can be included in URL format as well as in standard citation format. The on-line edition displays URLs as live links, which permits online readers one-click transfer to the source itself. Citations of this nature must provide the full site address and the specific source location within the site, as well as the date accessed. Where the site itself includes "how to cite" instructions, follow those instructions, with particular reference to Chicago Manual of Style settings.

Images, Tables and Figures

Images/Tables/Figures should be prepared and supplied as a separate Microsoft Word file. All images/tables/figures in a manuscript can appear sequentially in one electronic "Images," "Tables" or "Figures" file. The table should be formatted so that it appears as the author expects it to look in print: columns should be aligned correctly, the heads and subheads clearly set over the appropriate columns. Double-spacing is not required for images, tables and figures.

Authors should insert instructions in the body of their manuscripts indicating where each table should appear. Please insert instructions in the form of "call outs" consisting of bold angle brackets enclosing the appropriate notation, i.e., "〈Insert Table I here〉". Citations/notes within a table or figure should not be included in the general note-numbering sequence. Tables/figures have their own notes. Citations/notes particular to a table or figure appear immediately below the table/figure and are designated by letters not numbers (see Chicago Manual of Style 13.43).

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